Tyler, The Creator Quotes

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

Lil Uzi and I gave Philly different sounds by stepping outside of the box and not sticking to the stigma.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

Why would we want to do an experimental album? That's just selfish.

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.

I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

I wanted to go beyond what K-pop is typically perceived as, and through 'Move' I was able to show a concept that's more edgy, more powerful.

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

The reason I did 'PPNH' was because I wanted to do something different, wacky, and mainstream after 'Barfi!'

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.